After Effects Advanced Course Information

After Effects Advanced Course by C.M. de la Vega is a course designed for users who are ready to take their After Effects skills to the next level.

What You’ll Learn In After Effects Advanced Course?

Welcome to Level III

• A message from C.M. de la Vega
• Download Project | Wild Aces Credit Sequence
• Download Fonts

Workflow

• Performance Tips
• Relink Offline/Missing Files

New Features

• 01. 3D Gizmo | CC 2020
• 02. Camera Controls | CC 2020
• 03. Real Time 3D | CC 2021
• 04. Default Camera | CC 2021
• 05. AE 2023 New Features ⭐ (NEW)
• 06. Import 3D Models & Image-Based Light ⭐ (NEW)
• 07. New Track Matte ⭐ (NEW)

Tools

• 01. Per Character Animator | Advanced Properties
• 02. Per Character Animator | Range Selector and Stacking
• 03. Per Character Animator | Fill Color & Tracking
• 04. Per Character Animator | Character Offset & Value
• 05. Advanced Puppet Tool
• 06. Advanced Puppet Tool | Exercise 1
• 07. Advanced Puppet Tool | Exercise 2
• 08. Time Remapping | Part 1
• 09. Time Remapping | Part 2
• 10. Color Correction Tools
• 11. Tint | Desert Plants
• 12. Tint | Western Town
• 13. Tint | Saloon Doors
• 14. Tint | Western Town Floor
• 15. Tritone Effect
• 16. Distort | CC Slant
• 17. Distort | Turbulent Displace
• 18. Distort | Warp
• 19. Stylize | Roughen Edges
• 20. Stylize | Motion Tile
• 21. Stylize | CC Threshold Part 1
• 22. Stylize | CC Threshold Part 2
• 23. Stylize | CC Threshold Part 3
• 24. Lights
• 25. Shadows
• Tools Quiz

Technique

• 01. 2D Path Animation for Text
• 02. 2D Path Animation for Text | Exercise
• 03. 2D Path Animation for Images
• 04. 2D Path Animation for Images | Exercise
• 05. 3D Path Animation for Images
• 06. 3D Path Animation for Images | Exercise
• 07. 3D Path Animation for Text
• 08. 3D Path Animation for Text | Exercise
• 09. Preserve Underlying Transparency
• 10. Preserve Underlying Transparency | Exercise
• 11. Timing and Spacing
• 12. Using the Value Graph
• 13. Value Graph | Exercise
• 14. Intro to Speed Graph
• 15. Using the Speed Graph
• Technique Quiz

Expressions

• 01. Why Use Expressions?
• 02. Expressions Basics
• 03. Wiggle
• 04. Expression Controls
• 05. Expression Controls | Part 2
• 06. Expression Controls | Part 3
• 07. Time
• 08. Time | Animating a Tumbleweed
• 09. Time | Animating Clouds
• 10. Time | Animating a Lasso
• 11. LoopOut
• 12. LoopOut | Exercise
• 13. ValueAtTime
• 14. Coding in AE
• 15. If Else Statement
• Expressions Quiz

Visual Effects

• 01. Intro to Chroma Keying
• 02. Chroma Key Workflow
• 03. Keylight | Example 1
• 04. Fixing Holes in Your Chroma Key
• 05. Garbage Matte
• 06. Rotoscoping with Mask Tracker
• 07. Rotoscoping with Mocha AE
• 08. Rotoscoping with Roto Brush
• 09. Revisiting Time Remapping | Part 1
• 10. Color Grading | Part 1
• 11. Color Match Your Chroma Key to the Background
• 12. Keylight | Example 2
• 13. Working with Hair | Refine Soft Matte vs Key Cleaner
• 14. Using Refine Hard Matte
• 15. Combining Different Chroma Keys for Better Result
• 16. Color Grading | Part 2
• 17. Deeper Look into Roto Brush
• 18. Roto Brush Refine Edge Tools
• 19. 3D Camera Tracker
• 20. AE Motion Tracker
• 21. Green Screen Methods 1 ⭐ (NEW)
• 22. Green Screen Methods 2 ⭐ (NEW)
• 23. Green Screen Methods 3 ⭐ (NEW)
• 24. Rotobrush 3 ⭐ (NEW)
• VFX Quiz

Compositing the Credit Sequence

• Pep Talk from C.M.
• World Workflow Overview
• 01. Landscape | Part 1
• 02. Landscape | Part 2
• 03. Landscape | Part 3
• 04. Cliff | Part 1
• 05. Cliff | Part 2
• 06. Western Town | Part 1
• 07. Western Town | Part 2
• 08. Western Town | Part 3
• 09. Cowgirl Comp
• 10. Train Comp | Part 1
• 11. Train Comp | Part 2
• 12. Train Comp | Part 3
• 13. Green Screen Comp | Part 1
• 14. Green Screen Comp | Part 2
• 15. Outro Comp | Part 1
• 16. Outro Comp | Part 2

Animating the Credit Sequence

• 01. Compositing the Sections
• 02. Adding Camera & Rotate Nulls
• 03. Roadmap the Animation
• 04. Animating the Camera
• 05. Adding a Sky Background
• 06. Animating Layers Out
• 07. Animating the Icons
• 08. Compositing the Reward Poster
• 09. Fine Tune the Camera Animation with Value Graph
• 10. Adding Rotation to the Camera
• 11. Setup the Camera’s Depth of Field
• 12. Keyframing the Camera Aperture
• 13. Animate the Camera for the Outro Comp
• 14. Wrapping up the Title Sequence

Tracking with Mocha AE

• 01. Tracking a Phone Screen
• 02. Phone Screen Replacement
• 03. Tracking a Person Jogging/Running
• 04. Smooth Expression
• 05. Tracking Multiple Shapes
• 06. Rotoscoping and Cloning

Next Steps

• Congrats!
• Guide on How to be a Successful Freelance Artist

Bonus

• Shape Layers Refresher
• Creating the Wild Aces Text
• How to Install Unmult Plugin
• Free Resources

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